I looked at 300 paid n8n AI templates. Here is what people charge, and what gets looked at.

n8n.io lets verified creators sell templates now. I wanted to know what that market actually looks like, so I pulled every AI template I could reach through n8n's public templates API and looked at the paid ones. What this is and is not. 2,484 AI templates out of the 9,847 n8n lists, in the order its API returns them, so it is a large sample but not a random one. And n8n does not publish sales. Everything below is about price and views, never purchases. Views are attention, not revenue. How many are paid 300 of the 2,484 (12%), from 131 different sellers. Every seller in the set is a verified creator. What they charge Price Templates $1 to $9 57 $10 to $24 83 $25 to $49 108 $50 to $99 34 $100 and up 18 Median $25. The range runs from $1 to $499. Paid templates get looked at more, not less Median views: 358 for a paid template, 79 for a free one. That is not proof that charging helps. The likelier reason is that the people who charge are the established creators with audiences. But it does kill the idea that a price tag makes a template invisible. The mean goes the other way (free 5,333, paid 1,824), because a handful of free templates have enormous view counts. Medians are the honest comparison. Cheaper ones get somewhat more attention Across the paid set, price and views have a rank correlation of -0.24. Weak, but negative: the $5 to $25 templates are where most of the attention is. The single most-viewed paid template costs $5 and has about 116,000 views. What the paid ones are made of Compared with free templates, paid ones are much more likely to include: Node Paid Free Telegram 27% 14% OpenAI 30% 17% Notion 7% 3% WhatsApp 5% 2% YouTube 4% 1% And the most-viewed paid templates are almost all content and video automation: social posts, TikTok and YouTube Shorts generators, PDF-to-blog. People pay for things that produce something they would otherwise have to make by hand, and for bots that live where their customers already are. The complaint underneath all of it The n8n forum had a thread last week asking whether anyone actually pays for templates. The answers from people who had tried were consistent: buyers cannot judge a template before they pay for it, and once they buy it they get stuck connecting credentials and DM the seller asking them to set it up. One seller had a paid kit on Gumroad with zero sales and a stream of setup requests. So if you are going to sell, the data and the thread point the same way: Price it like the market does. $10 to $49 is where most of it sits. Sell an outcome. Content, video and messaging bots dominate attention. Make it inspectable before purchase. "I can't tell if it's good" is the objection, and a screenshot does not answer it. Plan for the credential step. Either price in setup or ship something that runs on the buyer's own keys without a handoff. Disclosure I work on Druve, a marketplace for AI agents, which is why I went looking. Points 3 and 4 are things we built around, so weigh my read of the forum thread accordingly. The numbers are just n8n's own API.